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...media, Dalton and Gunson say, arguing their sides even though the judge had already told them his plans in chambers. The attorneys also cite various times in which Rittenband promised to do one thing and then changed his mind. "What fascinated me about the legal systems was how much stuff takes place behind closed doors," says Zenovich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Redeeming Roman Polanski | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

...coli bacteria stew inside massive tanks. The bacteria's genomes contain 23 alterations that instruct it to digest sugar from corn and produce propane diol, a polyester used in carpets, clothing and plastics. The hard-working bugs churn out 100 million lbs. (45 million kg) of the stuff each day, and all it took was a little tinkering with their genomes, not the construction of a new one. "In terms of whether I can think of anything I can only do with a whole synthetic chromosome that I can't do now, the short answer is no," says John Pierce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scientist Creates Life — Almost | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

...details, however, De Monfreid is as unreliable as a $20 gram of weed. He claims, for instance, never to have heard of hashish prior to commencing his trade in it. This is nonsense. It was the stuff of daily social intercourse in North Africa at the time. And how could an erudite, well-traveled Frenchman who alludes throughout his book to canonical authors and works - from Homer to Boccaccio to fellow French writers like Dumas and Molière - not have been familiar with Baudelaire's 19th century writings about drugs, hashish in particular? One can only speculate that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Man of the Sea | 1/23/2008 | See Source »

...Right Stuff But conservative and independent voters have the same question about McCain: What kind of Republican is he? In 2000, when the U.S. was at peace and the economy was luxuriating in the frothy end days of the first Internet boom, McCain's first campaign was about character and biography much more than issues. McCain was the authentic hero, the fighter pilot who had been shot down over Hanoi and spent more than five years as a prisoner of war. He was the reformer and the straight talker, the rare politician who - perhaps because of his experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Resurrection of John McCain | 1/23/2008 | See Source »

...South Carolina in 2000 after his New Hampshire victory, when a whisper campaign and George Bush's dominance of the state's Republican party structure combined to deliver a crushing blow - was openly nervous. He even asked his staff to switch his exit song at rallies from confident, macho stuff like the Rocky theme to something that would make a softer, humbler appeal to voters. Thus the confluence of John McCain and ABBA's Take A Chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: S.C. Takes a Chance on McCain | 1/20/2008 | See Source »

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